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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 | Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sort of proof does Mary offer that Dick cannot be the father of her child?
(a) Ideological.
(b) Theological.
(c) Psychological.
(d) Physiological.

2. What does Tom Crick tell his students is the question humans must always ask about history?
(a) How?
(b) When?
(c) Who?
(d) Why?

3. What is NOT one of the names the Atkinsons give their special-occasion ales?
(a) The Empress of India.
(b) The Grand '51.
(c) The Golden Jubilee.
(d) The Crimean Victory.

4. What is the main fish that the Cricks and their neighbors catch for food?
(a) Trout.
(b) Eel.
(c) Salmon.
(d) Carp.

5. What is the landscape the novel is set in?
(a) The Lake District in northern England.
(b) The Fens in eastern England.
(c) The coastline of Cornwall.
(d) The docks of East London.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tom Crick mentions a similarity his father found between his home and the battlefields of World War I. What is that similarity?

2. What disaster befalls Sarah Atkinson when she is 37 years old?

3. Who does Tom Crick think his wife Mary is having a love affair with in her old age?

4. To what does Tom Crick compare the soil of the Fens?

5. What was Freddie Parr's father, Jack Parr, infamous for in the Gildsey area?

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